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Originally Posted by 14cobster
I broke the club head off of the shaft of my 7-iron at the range and spoke to an employee at the PGA Superstore about getting a new shaft and having them attach the head. He said to get a shaft online with a tapered tip I believe. So looking at Golfworks online for my model of shaft I saw that there is an option called "tip prepping". Is that the same as a tapered tip?? Golfworks describes tip prepping as abrading the tip for a steel shaft for reference.
Tip prepping is sanding and/or roughing up the surface of the shaft tip so it can more easily adhere to the head once the epoxy has been applied. That's why when you pull a shaft out clean the tip is usually a different color.
There are two types of iron shafts, tapered tip and parallel tip. Naturally a tapered tip shaft is bigger in diameter at the tip than a parallel shaft. In the end both types of shaft play about the same.
The way Superstore does things sometimes makes me laugh. You go in there for a broken shaft and they tell you to buy one online? Isn't that one of the reasons they are in business, to sell you golf equipment?
Just get the shaft and whoever installs it for you should automatically prep the tip if they have a clue as to what they are doing.